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...their skills and interests, a process that allows Earthwatch to match volunteers with appropriate projects. Living conditions vary from camping out to comfortable dorms. About 1 recruit out of 20 turns out to be a problem (a scientist working underwater in the Canary Islands discovered that one self-styled scuba diver could not even swim), but many others become Earthwatch regulars. Biologist Wynne-Edwards says 70% of her volunteers last year were repeaters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Challenges For Earth | 4/2/1990 | See Source »

Nassau has everything you could possibly want for a post-midterm break: scuba diving, windsurfing, parasailing, day-long cruises, casinos, nightclubs, shopping...which is why it also has many thousand of spring breakers from schools across the United States...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: When It Really Is Better in the Bahamas | 2/17/1990 | See Source »

Mergens maintains that such groups as Westside's chess and scuba-diving clubs fall into that category, thereby entitling her group to equal recognition. The high school disagrees, insisting that the clubs are in fact curricular extensions. The Supreme Court will now sort out the precise meaning of the act and consider whether it passes constitutional muster. Critics claim that by condoning religious activity in the interest of free speech the statute impermissibly establishes religion and prayer in public schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Prayers in The Schoolhouse? | 1/15/1990 | See Source »

...Maltese patrol boats circled, and scuba divers checked the waters as Bush landed by helicopter on the American guided-missile cruiser USS Belknap, his command post and the Sunday meeting site for the summit. The summit will open this morning on the Soviet guided missile cruiser Slava...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Superpower Summit To Begin in Malta | 12/2/1989 | See Source »

...yupmobile? A delicate question, but the answer is not really. Yuppies lack a sense of nonsense. They buy BMW or Saab Turbo convertibles, ragtop versions of sedans that are irreproachably expensive and slightly stodgy. If you must pick up your elderly aunt, her Doberman and her scuba gear at the airport, you can manage it in one of these. In the Miata...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Miatific Bliss in Five Gears | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

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